The Gig Economy Project

The Gig Economy Project newsletter provides updates on the gig economy in Europe from a pro-workers' rights perspective. Email: [email protected]

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

A new version of the Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!

We've re-launched in partnership with the @etuc_ces' Digital Platform Observatory.

And we're looking for your help: we need info to map the platform workers' movement across Europe.

More here: https://t.co/cijpUmiRoJ

[ryan hayes @hayesrya]

Some great insights here on the new ILO Convention on Platform Work. This in particular stuck with me: "Ultimately, it will come down to the mobilising capacity of platform workers to turn what is in this Convention into tangible regulatory changes at national level."

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

@ProDriversGMB @WorkerInfoX @cgt_delivery @UNTA_Mexico @Connect_IFAT @support_rider @ridersxderechos @rodriguezluz_ @acv_csc_europe @FinUnions @fodsl3 The Gig Economy Project provides all the latest news, analysis, events & more on the gig economy in Europe. It's free, just leave your email here to get it in your inbox: https://t.co/GF8A2WaPUi

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

News:

🌎 Uber exploring how it could sell-off some Delivery Hero brands
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Riders face racist attacks in Glasgow
🇮🇹 Glovo, under receivership, raises pay
🇬🇧 Court rules that Bolt has to pay VAT on whole fare
🇬🇧 @ProDriversGMB call on Uk Govt to protect jobs from robotaxi threat

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

The Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!

The @ilo made history last week when it agreed a labour standard on platform work for the first time.

How was it formed & what will its consequences be around the world?
Read here: https://t.co/ahPycNUDy9

#ILC2026 #ILO #PlatformWork

[Ben Wray @Ben_Wray1989]

Remarkable what is happening in Italy. A court put Glovo into receivership for labour abuses & has forced the company to raise the pay of its riders.

It puts govts to shame that a Milan court can achieve this in months, while they sit on their hands.
https://t.co/9sAi4EyU4i

[Ben Wray @Ben_Wray1989]

The ILO has established a labour standard for platform workers for the first time. I spoke to Marini Thorne, who was in Geneva for the conference, to discuss the debates & dividing lines which formed Convention 193, & what impact it will have on the ground.https://t.co/1SHRisyqxT

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

@ProDriversGMB @WorkerInfoX @cgt_delivery @UNTA_Mexico @Connect_IFAT @support_rider @ridersxderechos @rodriguezluz_ @acv_csc_europe @FinUnions @fodsl3 The Gig Economy Project provides all the latest news, analysis, events & more on the gig economy in Europe. It's free, just leave your email here to get it in your inbox: https://t.co/GF8A2WaPUi

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

The Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!

The @ilo made history last week when it agreed a labour standard on platform work for the first time.

How was it formed & what will its consequences be around the world?
Read here: https://t.co/ahPycNUDy9

#ILC2026 #ILO #PlatformWork

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

News:

🌎 Uber exploring how it could sell-off some Delivery Hero brands
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Riders face racist attacks in Glasgow
🇮🇹 Glovo, under receivership, raises pay
🇬🇧 Court rules that Bolt has to pay VAT on whole fare
🇬🇧 @ProDriversGMB call on Uk Govt to protect jobs from robotaxi threat

[Solidarity Center @SolidarityCntr]

IT'S OFFICIAL 🥳 After years of worker organizing and advocacy, the @ilo has just adopted Convention 193 on Decent Work in the Platform Economy. Congratulations to all of our trade union partners and global labor allies who have traveled this long road to a win! #ILC2026

[IDWF - International Domestic Workers Federation @IDWFED]

🧵1/3

🔵 #ILC2026 This is a victory for all platform workers, including #DomesticWorkers who rely on apps and digital platforms to find work. It is a step forward in the fight to be recognized as workers and to ensure dignity and respect prevail over insecurity and exploitation.

[ITUC @ituc]

#ILC2026: Unions win global protection standard for platform workers! 🙌

🗣️ “Platform workers can now use this Convention to organise in trade unions, just like other workers to defend their rights and interests.” @luc_triangle

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/Tpm5Kzj5KW

[International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) @ITFglobalunion]

The rules of the game have changed 🚨

This is a victory won by platform workers – the delivery riders, ride-hail drivers and app-based transport workers who organised, testified and refused to accept that an app could strip them of their rights. (1/2)

[Future of Work - ADAPT @ADAPT_bulletin]

ILC.114/CNP/D.4 #ILC2026
Final text of the Convention concerning decent work in the platform economy for adoption by the Committee https://t.co/o5TpdoT2zA via @ilo

[ALDTU aldtu.bsky.social @LDTradeUnionist]

Is Uber about to monopolise Europe's food delivery industry?
https://t.co/JuuJokTGiQ
Whether it's European or American Big Tech, these giant companies do not operate in the interests of their workers
@sarahjolney1 @LibDemsinBiz @MarishaRayLD @project_gig @nowak_paul @IWGBunion

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

The Gig Economy Project provides all the latest news, analysis, opinion and more on the gig economy in Europe from a pro-workers' rights perspective. It's free, just leave your email here to get it in your inbox: https://t.co/GF8A2WaPUi

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

News:

🇵🇹 General strike against Work XXI labour reform
🇪🇺 1 in 4 online platform workers face robo-firing risk
🌎 Uber CEO admits less drivers in cities with robo-taxis
🇪🇸 Accountancy firm KPMG questions financial viability of Glovo

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

The Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!

Uber and Prosus are battling for control of Delivery Hero. Both companies want to run roughshod over EU anti-monopoly rules, but monopolisation is not in the interests of workers or customers.

Read more here: https://t.co/YbvKum7tIR

[Ben Wray @Ben_Wray1989]

Seems significant that Uber's CEO has admitted that when you have robo-taxis in a city, it leads to less Uber drivers. Before, Uber had been arguing that robo-taxis led to a multiplier effect & was good for drivers. Munich to launch Uber robo-taxis soon.
https://t.co/tj3smjNJnU

[Ben Wray @Ben_Wray1989]

It's farcical that the EU required Prosus (owner of Just Eat) to sell down its 27% stake in Delivery Hero for anti-trust reasons, only for Uber to then buy a 37% stake in Delivery Hero.

Neither Dutch nor American monopolisation is good for workers.
https://t.co/XipkqBhdoK